Have a great midwinter festival, may everyone enjoy the festive season.
Parenting & Children
Places & Travel
Just saw a program about these two places on C4, the kids would love it. Steam trains and reindeer, up in he Scottish mountains. Looked awesome! Home https://www.strathspeyrailway.co.uk/
Brexit
Europe
Government
Chris Grey notes that the ‘sticking’ points about the neverending saga of the Brexit negotiations is around divergence: It’s also worth noting something about these three sticking points. A key and utterly flawed claim of the Brexiters has been that a trade deal would be easy because the UK was starting from a point of […]
Inspiration
This is really neat, a tiny z-scale Christmas scene that fits in 35cm x 35cm. Add the Marklin z-scale christmas train, and you’re good to go. It’d be fun to make a HO/OO scene, with a z-scale train. The HO figures could sit on it as if it was a 1/4 size ‘live steam’ train. […]
Society
There were (loads) of other ballots taking place alongside the US Presidential election last month, and Oregon approved a good one: The Oregon drug initiative will allow people arrested with small amounts of hard drugs to avoid going to trial, and possible jail time, by paying a $100 fine and attending an addiction recovery program. […]
Brexit
‘Sources’ close to the negotiations at what is now the long last minute of the 11th hour of the 4th year now believe a no-deal outcome is most likely. Sometimes, when dealing with children, you need to give them what they want, and then let them see what the consequences are. Of course, in this […]
Food for Thought
Government
“It’s the law of inverse relevance. The less you intend to do about something, the more you have to keep talking about it.” – Sir Arnold Robinson (played by John Nettleton), Yes, Minister, “Open Government” Yes, Minister still holds up, not only due to the excellent performances but the superb writing. It captured something timeless about […]
Trumperica
Of all the things Trump has done, perhaps this was the high point of his presidency. There he is, delighted with himself, able to “realize the fever dream of a ketchup-addicted 9-year-old”. Nothing wrong as such with enjoying your inner child, but when that’s the peak of a 4 year reign of one of the […]